Oumou Sangare – Kamelemba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/oumou-sangare-kamelemba/
Kamelemba is the second single, and probably the most interesting track, from Sangare’s 5th album, Mogoya, in 2017. (See also the remixed versions)
Cheick Tidiane Seck – Guerrier (2013)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cheick-tidiane-seck-warrior-guerrier-2013/
Cheick Tidiane Seck is well known across the African music industry, as a composer and arranger, since the 70s, when he played with Super Rail Band. Multi-instrumentalist, he has written for and played with African artists including Fela Kuti, Mory Kanté, Salif Keita, Youssou N’Dour and for jazz bands, Wayne Shorter, Carlos Santana, Hank Jones […]
Rokia Traoré – Beautiful Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/beautiful-africa-rokia-traore/
From Rokia Traoré‘s eponym album “Beautiful Africa”, her 5th, released in 2013, with Rock influences.
On Beautiful Africa, Malian songwriter and guitar slinger Rokia Traoré unleashes the fiery rocker she’s been nurturing since her teens. On four previous offerings she established herself as a wildly inventive and diverse […]
“And so Les Amazones d’Afrique were born…”
https://amf.didiermary.fr/amazones-afrique-dahomey-women-warriors/
Les Amazones d’Afrique is a collective of female stars including Angélique Kidjo, Mariam Doumbia, Nneka and many more. It started singing out in 2014 against gender inequality in West Africa over a soundtrack of Funk, Blues, Dub and Electro.
The first track they released was “I Play The Kora” from their album [...]
Music from Saharan Cellphones
https://amf.didiermary.fr/music-saharan-cellphones/
Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation, released in 2011, of music collected from memory cards and cellular phones in the Saharan desert. In much of West Africa, cellphones are used as all purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal computers and high speed internet, the knockoff cellphones house portable music collections, [...]
#Compilation #DesertBlues #Mali #Morocco #Niger #Rock #Tuareg #Global
Lobi Traore – Bwati Kono
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lobi-traore-bwati-kono/
Lobi Traore was first known from one of the many dimly lit grimy night clubs of Bamako, with his overdriven amp and ungrounded fuzzbox pedal.
Bwati Kono was recorded live in two separate sessions and released in 2011.
Xhalix – Mali Te Affoo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/xhalix-mali-te-affoo/
Xhalix is a Malian artist, born in Bamako in 1988. With her band Affoo, meaning “unity” in Songhai, she released her first album “Mali Te Affoo” (Mali is one) in 2013.
Bazoumana, the Djeli and his N’goni
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bazoumana-djeli-ngoni/
Bazoumana, or Banzumana, Sissoko (1890-1987) – aka the « old lion » – was a n’goni player, a Malian national treasure as well as a djeli (jeli) or griot.
"The quintessential n’goni player was the late Banzumana Sissoko, perhaps the most revered and beloved Malian griot of the century. Until his death in 1987, he […]
Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux – Mandjou (TV)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/les-ambassadeurs-internationaux-mandjou-tv/
Avec Salif Keita au chant et le guitariste Manfila Kanté, le titre “Mandjou”, extrait de l’album éponyme sorti en Côte d’Ivoire en 1978, est un hommage au Président guinéen Ahmed Sekou Touré. C’est ce titre qui va révéler Salif Keita et propulser le chanteur au rang d’idole.
Le contenu de cette chanson est à rapprocher […]
Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako – Mali Denou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ambassadeurs-motel-bamako-mali-denou/
The original version of Mali Denou, by Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako.
In 1969, an ambitious army lieutenant, a key member of the new junta which had seized power only the previous year, decided that a band was needed to entertain customers at the Motel De Bamako, […]
Le Mystère Jazz de Tombouctou
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mystere-jazz-tombouctou/
The Orchestre Regional de Tombouctou, also known as “Le Mystère Jazz de Tombouctou”, did not release a recording until 1977.
During the era of Mali’s first President, Modibo Keita (1960-1968), the government created regional orchestras and arts troupes in each of the nation’s seven regions. These groups were state-sponsored and from 1962 they competed in […]
Ausecuma Beats
https://amf.didiermary.fr/meet-ausecuma-beats/
Ausecuma Beats are more than just a band, they are a philosophy. Led by master djembe player, Boubacar Gaye, the nine-strong ensemble, demonstrate artists coming together based on an idea – the idea of place, of transplanting cultural heritage into a contemporary city.
Ausecuma Beats is people from all corners of the world finding themselves […]
Praktika – Fôli Folle Feat. Ko Saba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/praktika-foli-folle-ko-saba/
Ko Saba est une formation malienne de 6 musiciens de différentes couches sociales, fédérée par Barou Diassana, qui propose de la musique tradi-moderne métissée.
“Fôli” veut dire “musique” en Bambara. Aïda, jeune femme malienne amoureuse de danse contemporaine se retrouve embarquée dans une course effrénée dans les rues de Bamako. [...]
Oumou Sangaré – Minata Waraba (Sampha Remix)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/oumou-sangare-minata-waraba-sampha-remix/
Sampha has remixed the “Minata Waraba” track of Oumou Sangaré’s latest album Mogoya. This version appears on a special remixed LP released in 2018.
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Jama Ko
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ngoni-ba-jama-ko-bassekou-kouyate-2013/
After his celebrated debut album “Segu Blue” and the Grammy nominated follow up “I speak Fula,” hundreds of concerts all over the globe, performing as headliner in the AfroCubism project, Bassekou Kouyaté released “Jama Ko” in 2013, a cry for tolerance and peace. […]
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba – Siran Fen
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bassekou-kouyate-ngoni-ba-siran-fen/
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba’s fourth album “Ba Power” (2015) is a striking, career defining record marked by mesmerizing songs, razor-sharp riffs and full-throttle emotions. Following two years of worldwide touring for the much heralded Jama Ko album, Bassekou’s band, Ngoni Ba, has turned up the volume and dynamics significantly [...]
Allez ! Sama Africa épisode 12, avant-dernier épisode du périple et du podcast, entre Sénégal et Mali ! Pour raconter l'ambiance football au stade de Dakar, la séparation avec ma Titine, mes 45 heures de train entre Dakar et Bamako, quelques escapades à Djenné ou Tambacounda et... l'arrivée d'une inconnue franco-danoise en provenance des États-Unis, il fallait bien un épisode taille XXL !
https://podcast.cy-real.com/@samaafrica/episodes/episode-12-de-nouveaux-soleils
Super11 – raw Desert Blues
https://amf.didiermary.fr/super-onze-raw-desert-blues/
If you like pure raw desert blues, this video is for you, as it’s a perfect origin for so many contemporary artists from the Sahel region.
“Super Onze are the real roots of desert blues – Mali’s equivalent of Congotronics. This is how it all sounded before the electric guitar came in to the equation: […]
Nfaly Diakité – Mogote Diabeye
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nfaly-diakite-mogote-diabeye/
“Hunter Folk Vol 1: Tribute to Toumani Koné” is the first solo album by Nfaly Diakité, recorded in Bamako in June 2020. On the album, Nfaly is the only singer, providing backing vocals and playing the donso ngoni and keregne. The album is a tribute to the storyteller and poet Toumani Koné, the greatest donso […]
Salif Keita – Samfi
https://amf.didiermary.fr/salif-keita-samfi/
Talé est un album de Salif Keïta sorti le 12 novembre 2012. Le titre Samfi (ou Samfy) est très électro et contient un sample de B-52, Planet Claire.
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